Educational appliance.



Patented Dec. 3; 1918.

G.T.H|LL'YARD.

TIONAL APPLIANCE.

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other object is to construct a set of blocks ralsnal phonograms,

521 29th St., in the city `ed claims; it being UNITED sTATEs PATENToEEroE.

GRACE T. HILLYAED, or OAKLAND, CALIEENIA.

EnUcATIoNAL AIPPLIANCE.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, GRACE T. HmLYARD, citizen of the United' States,residing at of Oakland; in the countyof Alameda and State of California,have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in EducationalAppliances, of which the following is a specification.r

This invention relates to improvements in educational appliances andmore specifically to a set of spelling blocks from which words, i -moreparticularly may those of mnosyllabic type be formed.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved form ofblocks for use in elementary school,- work whereby the pupil is taughtthe formation of the simglr the consonants or having on certain ones-combination 'of consonants which form the initial part ofthe words andon others of the set honograms which form the terminal part o suchwords.

It will be understood, however, that while I have illustrated anddescribed the blocks as having the initial consonants and termithe setcould just as readilyl be constructed by using the initial phonoams andterminal consonants. Still another object of the invention is to providea colored background on those blocks on which the phonograms areprinted, the colors being those of the spectrum and being arranged onthe blocks so that the colors in their proper orderV are when thephonograms are'arranged in alphabetical order of the initial vowel.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combinations and arrangements of arts'hereinafter described and' more spec' cally pointed out in theappendunderstood that changes in form, proportion, size, andA minorAfeatures of construction within the scope of the claims may be resortedto without departing from theY spirit of the invention or i sacrificingany .of the advantagzges'thereof.l

To more fully 'comprehend the invention reference should be ad to thedrawings forming a part' of the speciiication and vvwherein z Figure isa view in perspective of one Specification of Letters Patent.

, Application inea April 2, 1

presented i Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

917. Serial' No. 159,372.

of those blocks whereon the initial consonants appear.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of one ofthose blocks whereon is shownphonogramsv beginning with the vowel a.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing a blockhaving phonogramsbeginning with e.

Fig. 4 is a view in elevationy of a block whereon the phonograms beginwith i,

Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of a block whereon the phonograms beginwith o.

Fig. 6 is a view in elevation of a block having phonograms the initial,letter of which is u.

Fig. 7 1s a view 1n plan of a set of blocks constructed in accordancewith my invention.

Referring to the various parts by the-same numerals of reference, myblocks are preferably constructed in the usual cubical shape asillustrated in Figs; 1, to 3 inclusive, and may be divided int'o twoclasses; those having on each face a single letter which is a consonant,a digraph or a combination of consonants such as spl: and those havingdenoted by 1 y on each face a phonogram.

Blocks 'of the former class all have a white surface, and these blocksare approximately equal in number to the number of the `other class. Thearrangement of the letters on these blocks' may be as desired.. forinstance all the letters on a single block may be the same, or they `maybe in pairs on opposite faces, or as illustrated in the drawing theletter on each face may be different. In addition to carrying theinitial consonants these blocks carry the `digraphs ch, gh, .sh and .thas shown at 3 and also such combinations as spl and ithr as shown at 4.y

rl`he blocks that carry the phonograms and which kare denoted generallycolored surfaces, the a ,i o u w and y phonogramsbeing printedon red,orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo an violet respectively, thus whenthephonograms are arranged in the o rder of their respective initialvowel, the colors of 'the spectrum are presented in their proper order.In use'the children are taught to place one of the white blocks invfront of one of the colored ones thus forming a simple word. By a littleassistance they are-soon able to 10sL l pronounce and recognize thesewords and -then to form short sentences.

p I claim as new and wish to cover by Letters Patent: v

1. A set of blocks comprising letter blocks land phonogramblocks, eachof the former 3. A set of blocks comprising letter lolocksground, the

and phonogram blocks, each of the former having'initial consonants -onya white background on each of the faces, and each-of the latter havingphonograms on a colored backphonograms having the same initial vowel,background.V g y 4. A set of blocks comprising two groups,

Vone group having a white surface and initial consonants on the facesthereof, the

other group having surfaces comprising the 30 colors'of the spectrum andhaving phonogramson the faces thereof, the initial vowel of thephonograms and the colored surfaces on which the phonograms are printed.being and spectrum respectively.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GRACE T. HILLYARD.

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